Kuala Lumpur, sentence 353
From Wikipedia, «Kuala Lumpur», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Despite efforts to promote public transport, utilisation rates are low, 16 per cent of the population in 2006.
Who acts: Despite efforts, utilisation rates · What happens: promote, be · To what, where: public transport
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kuala Lumpur». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Despite efforts, utilisation rates), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Despite | despite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 efforts | amod |
| 2 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 promote | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 promote | mark |
| 4 | promote | promote | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 transport | amod |
| 6 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promote | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 low | punct |
| 8 | utilisation | utilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rates | compound |
| 9 | rates | rate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 low | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 low | cop |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 promote | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cent | punct |
| 13 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 cent | nummod |
| 14 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cent | compound |
| 15 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 low | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 population | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 population | det |
| 18 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cent | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 2006 | case |
| 20 | 2006 | 2006 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 cent | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promote | to-infinitive | Despite efforts | public transport | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transport=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | utilisation rates | 16 per cent of the population in 2006 parataxis; low property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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